Close-range attachment for gun-sights.



J. W. BEELER.

CLOSE RANGE ATTACHMENT FOR GUN SIGHTS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 2.1916.

1 ,225 ,9 1 8. Patented May 15, 1917.

m1 'g' lal 1 JAMES W. BEELER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLOSE-RANGE ATTACHMENT FOR GUN-SIGHTS.

Application filed October 2, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. Brennan, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Close- Range Attachments for Gun-Sights, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a close range attachment for gun sights, and has for its object an attachment applicable to the present gun sight now used on the standard army rifles.

A further object of my invention is to construct an attachment which can be readily and easily applied to the range member of a standard gun sight so that when once applied the attachment is in ready position and can be manipulated without the user of the gun removing his eye from the object which he desires to shoot at; and a further object is to sight and strike the object at the specific point aimed, at close range.

It has been found that the sights now in use are so arranged that it will be necessary to adjust the range member before striking the object; when making such adjustment the eye is removed from the object and by that time there might be a variation in the range depending upon the movement of the object fired at. This is specially the case in hunting game such as deer, or other large game; and it has also been found that after once removing the eye from the object to be fired at ofttimes such game escapes. The attachment is in such position that the operator of the gun may be throwing the range member back to a horizontal position; the sight is ready and absolutely hits the mark aimed at without the necessity of adjustment and this can be done approximately by the movement of the fingers without the eye being taken off the object aimed at.

Figure 1., is a side elevation of a standard or modern gun showing the sight in its position.

Fig. 2, is a detail top plan view of the sight detached from the gun.

Fig. 3, is a side view of the same.

Fig. 4, is a side view of the sight showing the range member thrown back to approximately a horizontal position and supporting my improved attachment.

Fig. 5, is a detail perspective view of my improved attachment.

Fig. 6, is a view of one end of the same.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May'15, 1917.

Serial No. 123,264.

Fig. 7 is a view of the opposite end of the same.

Referring to the drawings in detail 8 indicates a modern or standard gun such for example as the modern army Springfield rifle; 9 is the present sight usedthereon and 10 is the screw for operating the sight to control it under the term windage.

The general structure of the sight is the same as that now used on the standard rifles;

in addition to this I construct my attachment which consists of a plate 11 its one end 12 tapered and formed in the shape of a screw driver which is used whenever it is found necessary to use a screw driver in connection with any screw forming a part of the gun. The edges 13 of this plate are tapered or beveled as that indicated by the numeral 14: and these tapered or beveled edges snugly fit into beveled groove 15 formed in the elevation or range member 16 of the standard sight.

The plate 11 is provided at its opposite end with a right angular projection 17 pro vided with a sight opening 18 and it is also provided with a clamping or fastening member 19 having a downward projection or tooth 20 which is designed to fit over the elongated ridge or projection 21 formed on the face of the range member. By this tooth the attachment is held in position, but the arm or projection 19 is so shaped and constructed of spring material that by mere pressure inward or outward the attachment can be placed in position or removed as found desirable.

The attachment when placed in position on the range member of the sight and when the sight is inclosed in position as that shown in Figs. 1 and 3, this attachment is virtually out of the way and at any time is no wise detrimental to the general manipulation of a range section of the standard sight as it is seldom that a range greater than 24,000 yards is used.

By experience it has been found that with this attachment and when the range member is shown in the position as illustrated in Fig. 4, the sight will be on a line as that virtually shown by the dash line in said View; and this line would be directly in point of the sight on the end of the barrel. By this arrangement and equipment the object aimed at would be struck directly at the point of view, thus. dispensing with the fact that heretofore when shooting at an object at close range and in order to hit the head it would be necessary to virtually aim at the Waist line, as the sight in its present arrangement elevates the gun and tapers too high and ofttimes when the head is aimed at the. ball passed over the head without efiect.

With my attachment the hinged range member can'be quickly thrown back from a folded to an extended position and the sight in the attachment ready instantly so that the object can be aimed and fired at Without necessitating removing the eye from the objectin order to set the sight.

The device is simple but yet expressly effective; it can be attached to every sight without in any Way changing the structure of the present sight.

Having fully described my invention What I claim is 2.

1. A close range attachment for gun sights comprising a plate provided with a sight perforation and adapted to be attached to Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by. addressing the comprising a detachable member in combination with a standard gun sight, said member equipped with a sight opening to be used for close range and a means for clamping the member in position on said sight, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES W. BEELER.

Witnesses:

ALFRED A. EICKS, WALTER O. STEIN. I

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

